From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 14:28:36 BST
Hi Simon,
Thanks for bringing things into proper focus.
O, and thanks for all the fish!
Best,
msh
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On 19 Oct 2004 at 8:04, Simon Magson wrote:
'Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so
mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some
thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the
non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I
exist," says God "proof denies faith, and without faith I am
nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It
could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so
therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly
vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove
that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra
crossing.'
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